Brooklyn
Police are looking for a brute with an extensive rap sheet who ripped off the shield of a cop in Red Hook, authorities said.
When officers were breaking up a fight at the Red Hook Houses on Lorraine Street about 4:40 p.m. Saturday, Arthur Lawyer, 43, allegedly grabbed it and ran off. The officer was able to identify Lawyer as the suspect through a photo array–and the shield was found at Lawyer’s apartment.
However, the crook is still in the wind. Police say he is 6-foot-4, 185 pounds, and has black braided hair.
The Bronx
A woman went berserk and attacked her husband in their Mount Hope apartment while their 7-year-old daughter looked on, authorities said.
Sherian Crawford, 26, was arguing with her husband at 11 a.m. Sunday in a 10th-floor apartment on Henwood Place near Walton Avenue when she started assaulting him, according to a Criminal Court complaint.
She punched him in the head and wielded a pair of scissors, slicing his left ear and puncturing his neck, the complaint says
The little girl watched in horror, screaming and crying.
The victim received hospital treatment for non-life-threatening injuries, the complaint says.
Crawford was arrested on charges of assault, endangering the welfare of the child and harassment, a court database shows.
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Cops are looking for three crooks who burglarized a Fordham Heights apartment. The men broke into an apartment on Grand Avenue near Evelyn Place between 6 and 9 p.m. Sunday, cops said.
After getting in through a window, they pillaged the home of electronics and jewelry. One suspect sports a triangle tattoo on his neck.
Staten Island
A metal-loving crook was busted for stealing weights from a West New Brighton home and selling them at a scrap yard, authorities said.
Kevin Chambliss, 32, allegedly pried the basement door off its frame at the Elm Street home at about 10 a.m. on April 23 and took a weight-pressing bench and several iron weights, according to a criminal complaint.
He allegedly sold the loot at J and R Recycling on Richmond Terrace.
He was arrested on May 6 on charges of burglary, petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, according to a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
He pleaded guilty Friday and agreed to pay $500 restitution, the spokesman said.
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A man stashed weapons, drugs and fireworks in his Eltingville home, authorities said.
Cops searched Giuseppi Schettini’s Winchester Avenue home on May 6 and found a trove of weapons including five air guns, nine Kung Fu throwing stars, two plastic twists filled with cocaine and a stun gun, a court complaint charges.
Schettini, 40, was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, criminal possession of a controlled substance and unlawfully dealing with fireworks.
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A thief is wanted for snatching an iPhone from a man at a St. George bus stop, police said.
The 23-year-old victim was on an S52 bus on Feb. 17 at 5:05 a.m. near Jersey Street and Brighton Avenue when the crook (pictured) approached, police said.
The suspect, in his 20s, grabbed the phone and fled, police said.
Queens
A sanitation worker was killed in an Astoria motorcycle accident, authorities said.
Daniel Nieves, 32, was riding his black 2011 Suzuki on Vernon Boulevard when he drove into a tree at 31st Avenue shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday, according to cops.
EMS rushed him to Cornell Hospital, but he could not be saved.
Nieves worked for the Sanitation Department, and lived in Ridgewood.
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Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying two men who broke into an Elmhurst apartment and robbed the tenant.
The suspects entered the apartment through an unlocked door at about 5 a.m. last Thursday, assaulted the victim and took his $5,000 Rolex as well as $10,000 in cash, police said.
